Can computed tomography angiography of the brain replace lumbar puncture in the evaluation of acute-onset headache after a negative noncontrast cranial computed tomography scan?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-451

  McCormack, Robert F ^a   Hutson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute onset headache; Computed tomography; Computed tomography angiography; Diagnosis; Lumbar puncture; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951079056     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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